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Tories Tap Farmers For CWB Committee

By Alex Binkley November 3, 2011

The Conservatives have tapped their Prairie bench strength to serve on a special legislative committee that will review the bill to end the Canadian Wheat Board s monopoly over wheat and barley sales. There was nearly endless political jockeying over the bill, with NDP MP Pat Martin charging it was a conflict of interest for

Cereals, News

Marketing Freedom Bill Hits House

By Allan Dawson October 27, 2011

When Bill 18 the Grain Marketing Freedom for Farmers Act becomes law, the board s 10 farmer-elected directors will be fired and the five remaining government-appointed directors, including current president and CEO Ian White, will be in charge. Grain companies will be allowed to forward contract wheat, durum and barley for the 2011-12 crop year.

Cereals, Crops

Two More Private Members’ Bills Deal With CWB

By Allan Dawson November 11, 2010

Two more private members’ bills dealing with the Canadian Wheat Board received first reading in the House of Commons last week. If it becomes law Bill C-588 will stop members of Parliament from spending taxpayers’ money to influence Canadian Wheat Board elections. Bill C-589, if approved, will give the CWB’s directors more control of the

News

Atamanenko Takes Motion To End C-474 Hearings Personally

By Allan Dawson November 11, 2010

Norma l l y, mot ions such as the one to extend hearings on Bill C-474, are rubber stamped by Parliament. But Alex Atamanenko, the NDP MP for B.C. Southern Interior, says the Conservatives engineered the motion’s defeat in the House of Commons Oct. 27. Atamanenko, who is a member of the House of Commons’

Cereals, News

Hearings On GM Regulation Bill C-474 Shut Down

By Allan Dawson November 4, 2010

Preventing genetically modified (GM) crops from contaminating non-GM crops is practically impossible. That’s the message weed scientist Rene Van Acker would have given the House of Commons’ agriculture committee hearing on Bill C-474 in Ottawa Oct. 28, had he been given the opportunity. But hearings on NDP MP Alex Atamanenko’s legislation came to an abrupt

Crops

Bill To Assess Market Impact Of GM Crops In Doubt

By Allan Dawson October 28, 2010

Aprivate member’s bill seeking legislation to assess “the potent ial harm to (Canadian) export markets” from new genetically modified (GM) crops, faces a lot of hurdles. The House of Commons was to vote this week on whether to extend the agriculture committee’s hearings on NDP MP Alex Atamanenko’s private member’s bill. Extensions are normally rubber

Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

More Pros And Cons Heard On Bill C-474

By Allan Dawson October 21, 2010

Farmers welcome new crop varieties, but they also want regulations to ensure those crops don’t ruin markets, Paul Gregory told the House of Commons’ agriculture committee during a hearing on Bill C-474 broadcast live on the Internet Oct. 5. “I talk to farmers every day,” said Gregory, president of Interlake Forage Seeds Inc., near Fisher

News

MP Proposes National Food Day

By Alex Binkley October 14, 2010

Farmers should be as much a part of Thanksgiving as family gatherings and turkey dinners, says NDP MP Malcolm Allen who wants the Friday before the holiday to be known as National Local Food Day. Allen, the party’s food safety critic, presented a bill to the Commons Oct. 7 to authorize the change. It was

News, Oilseeds

Human Ecology Celebrates 100 Years

By Lorraine Stevenson October 7, 2010

They don’t call it “home ec” anymore, but the University of Manitoba’s faculty of human ecology is beginning its second century with renewed government support. The faculty recently held its 100th anniversary celebrations, which were highlighted by the announcement of a $100,000 fund that will generate scholarships for students pursuing degrees in human ecology, science,

Opinion

Want A Gun Registry That Works? Put It In Writing – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Daniel Winters September 16, 2010

Next week, left-leaning politicians, as usual, will forget whatever principles they once pretended to possess, and instead vote to save their own skins. That, more or less, shows how democracy in this country works, and how low the discussion surrounding the long-gun registry has sunk. We all know that NDP leader Jack Layton has pledged

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